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YES! Reflection of Molly Bloom

By Ali Alhamadani few blocks from Broadway street where theaters amaze spectators with advanced technologies, choreography, and colorful scenery using dopamine's cravings to attract modern audiences, the Irish Repertory Theatre (IRT) produced YES! Reflections of Molly Bloom with Aedin Moloney as a sole actor by adapting Molly's soliloquy from James Joyce's novel Ulysses. The play was wondrous by Moloney's capability of performing as a Greek...

KUWAIT: A vendor displays Zubaidi fish at a fish market in Kuwait City on July 16, 2022. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Zubaidi price high on first day of reopening fishing in Kuwait

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: Kuwaiti Union of Fishermen announced, on Saturday, the start of the fishing season for Zubaidi fish in Kuwaiti territorial waters, after the end of the fishing ban period that started 45 days before. The price of local Zubaidi on the first day has exceeded KD 13 to reach KD 15.5 per kilo, despite the lack of availability at fish markets. President of the Kuwaiti Union of Fishermen Dhaher Al-Sowian.President of the Kuwaiti...

TOPSHOT - Fires are seen following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza city on July 16, 2022. - Israeli warplanes struck a weapons manufacturing facility in the Gaza Strip early on July 16, the military said, after rocket fire against Israeli territory. The exchange of fire came hours after US President Joe Biden visited Israel and the occupied West Bank. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Zionists strike Gaza Strip

GAZA: Zionists hit the Gaza Strip before dawn on Saturday in what it said was a retaliatory strike for rocket fire from the Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas. The exchange of fire came hours after US President Joe Biden visited Zionist entity and the Occupied West Bank. “A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck a military site in the central Gaza Strip belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization,” a statement...

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Ukraine accuses Russia of shelling from captured nuclear power plant

KYIV: Ukraine's atomic energy agency accused Russia of using Europe's largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and shell the surrounding regions of Nikopol and Dnipro that were hit on Saturday. Petro Kotin, president of Ukrainian nuclear agency Energoatom, called the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant "extremely tense" with up to 500 Russian soldiers controlling the plant.The plant in southeast Ukraine has been under Russian control...

COLOMBO: Demonstrators rest in a makeshift tent at a protest arena near Sri Lankan presidential office in Colombo on July 16, 2022.- AFP

Sri Lanka's ousted leader says he did 'utmost' for bankrupt nation

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's ousted president did his "utmost" to avoid an economic catastrophe but the coronavirus pandemic derailed his efforts, he said in his resignation letter read out to parliament Saturday. Gotabaya Rajapaksa's brief note, sent from the safety of a safe haven in Singapore, blamed COVID-19 for the financial meltdown that triggered months of protests, culminating in his humiliating escape abroad."I have contributed my utmost for the...

FILE - This Oct. 9, 2011 file photo shows 55 Water Street, home of Standard & Poor's, in New York. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services upgraded its outlook Monday, June 10, 2013, for the U.S. government's long-term debt. S&P cited the government's strengthened finances, a recovering U.S. economy and some easing of Washington's political gridlock. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)

S&P Global revises its Kuwait outlook to stable from negative

KUWAIT: S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Kuwait to stable from negative and affirmed the 'A+/A-1' long- and short-term foreign- and local-currency sovereign credit ratings. The transfer and convertibility assessment remains at 'AA-'.OutlookThe stable outlook primarily reflects the favorable oil price and domestic production prospects over the next two years. It is also based on our expectations that Kuwait will implement additional...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: People wait in a queue to refill their Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders at a gasoline distribution point in Colombo.- AFP

Sri Lankans queue at pumps for days with no promise of petrol

COLOMBO: Out of gas and stuck in line for days, a group of motorists kick off their shoes and settle on a sidewalk in Sri Lanka's capital for a round of cards. Emergency curfews, tear gas plumes and the sudden departure and resignation of the president have all failed to budge the long vehicle queues snaking out of Colombo's empty petrol stations.Chronic fuel shortages have been a source of frustration for months but are now worse than ever, with...

FUJISAWA, Japan: In this picture taken on June 30, 2022 Kazuki Kimura works in his house in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. - AFP

A quiet telework revolution in Japan's rigid business culture

TOKYO: Posted far from home for his job at Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, father of two Tsutomu Kojima was "really lonely" until he began working remotely during the pandemic for the first time. COVID-19 has upended office routines worldwide, but in Japan-where punishing hours and reliance on paper files, ink stamps and fax machines has long been the norm-some say the shake-up was sorely needed. Pre-pandemic, just nine percent of the Japanese...

EUGENE: Athletes compete in the Men's 3000 Meter Steeplechase heats on day one of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field on July 15, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon. - AFP

Felix wins 19th world medal

EUGENE: American veteran Allyson Felix will hang up her spikes having sealed a remarkable 19th world medal on Friday, while Fred Kerley laid down an impressive marker in the heats for the 100m in Oregon. Was it the perfect swansong for Felix? Not quite, as she and Kennedy Simon were both reeled in on their resepctive legs, leaving the Dominican Republic to take victory in the 4x400m mixed relay, the Dutch quartet edging the US for silver.Her...

MANCHESTER: Norway's striker Ada Hegerberg (left) heads the ball as she fights for it against Austria's defender Carina Wenninger during the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 Group A football match between Austria and Norway at Brighton and Hove Community Stadium in Brighton, Southern England on July 15, 2022. - AFP

Norway suffer shock exit from Euro 2022

LONDON: Norway suffered a shock exit from Euro 2022 as the pre-tournament title contenders crashed to a 1-0 defeat against Austria on Friday. Despite the presence of Lyon star Ada Hegerberg in their line-up, former European champions Norway paid the price for another lacklustre display in Brighton. Norway failed to advance from Group A after a second successive loss, while Austria progressed to the quarter-finals as runners-up behind...

EUGENE: Bronze medalist Perseus Karlstrom of Team Sweden and gold medalist Toshikazu Yamanishi of Team Japan celebrate following the Men's 20 Kilometers Race Walkon day one of the World Athletics Championships Oregon 22 at Hayward Field on July 15, 2022. - AFP

Yamanishi retains 20km race walk title in a Japanese 1-2

EUGENE: Japan's Toshikazu Yamanishi produced a brutal final kick to defend his world men's 20km race walk title in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday. Yamanishi timed 1hr 19min 07sec in a Japanese 1-2 as compatriot Koki Ikeda took silver, seven seconds off the winning pace. It was a repeat of the result at March's World Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat.Perseus Karlstrom of Sweden, 2019 world bronze medalist and Muscat 35km champion, claimed a...

In this file photo Johnny Depp performs on stage with Jeff Beck during the Helsinki Blues Festival in Helsinki. -AFP

After sensational trial, Johnny Depp releases an album

Fresh off his highly publicized, controversial defamation suit, actor Johnny Depp sought to show his creative career was back on track Friday, releasing an album with English rocker Jeff Beck. The 13-track album "18" on which Depp sings and plays guitar features mainly covers, and so far it has been critically panned.It's a record unlikely to figure prominently in the repertoire of Beck, the 78-year-old former member of The Yardbirds. The album...

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GAZA: A Palestinian child injured in a Zionist strike reacts as she is carried to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug 21, 2024. - AFP

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